REPORTS OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES DECIDED BY THE COURT OF APPEALS OF KENTUCKY VOLUME XL By T. R. McBEATH, Reporter 0172672 VOLUME 147 KENTUCKY REPORTS Containing cases decided from February 16, 1912, to April 23, 1912. FRANKFORT, KY.: FRANKFORT PRINTING Co., PRINTERS AND BINDERS 1912 JUDICIAL OFFICERS OF THE STATE COURT OF APPEALS OF KENTUCKY (As constituted during the period covered by this volume from February 16, 1912, to April 23, 1912.) Ion, J. P. HOBSON, Chief Justice. ASSOCIATE JUSTICES Hon. JOHN D. CARROLL Hon. JOHN M. LASSING Hon. T. J. NUNN Hon. W. E. SETTLE Hon. SHACKELFORD MILLER Hon. ROBERT H. WINN Hon. WM. ROGERS CLAY, Commissioner, OFFICERS OF THE COURT JAMES GARNETT, Attorney General. JAMES D. BLACK, First Assistant Attorney General, M. M. LOGAN, Second Assistant Attorney General. CHARLES H. MORRIS, Third Assistant Attorney General. ..... 25th District-J. M. BENTON **JAMES QUARLES-Chancery Branch, First Division. SAMUEL B. KIRBY-Chancery Branch, Second Division. WILLIAM H. FIELD-Common Pleas Branch, First Division. THOS. R. GORDON-Common Pleas Branch, Second Division. WALTER P. LINCOLN-Common Pleas Branch, Third Division. 31st District-D. W. GARDNER Salyersville 32nd District-J. B. HANNAH 33rd District-L. D. LEWIS 34th District-*FLEM D. SAMPSON *Elected November, 1911, to fill unexpired term. Winchester ...London .Somerset .Tompkinsville .Sandy Hook †R. W. BINGHAM from Jan. 10, 1911 to Nov. 24, 1911. COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEYS Elected November, 1909. 1st District-R. F. SMITH 2nd District-JOHN G. LOVETT 3rd District-DENNY P. SMITH 4th District-JOHN L. GRAYOT 5th District-S. V. DIXON 6th District-BEN D. RINGO 11th District-C. S. HILL 16th District-R. G. WILLIAMS 18th District-JAS. C. DEDMAN ..... 32nd District-J. W. WAUGH 33rd District-IRA FIELDS 34th District-*JOSEPH B. SNYDER *Elected November, 1911, to fill unexpired term. .... Nicholasville ...Harlan Manchester ..Somerset .Burksville .Louisville Prestonburg ...Grayson Whitesburg .Willliamsburg |